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DOST-MIRDC Offers Continued Partnership with the Metalworking Industry
By Marlyn Ramones
Taguig, Metro Manila – The local metalworking industry celebrates another milestone as the Metalworking Industries Association of the Philippines (MIAP) holds its virtual 31st General Membership Meeting and Election on May 21, 2021. It is also during this event that the Department of Science and Technology – Metals Industry Research and Development Center (DOST-MIRDC) expressed its support and continued partnership with the MIAP and the local manufacturing sector.
Engr. Jonathan Q. Puerto, Deputy Executive Director for Technical Services, presented to the MIAP officials and members the DOST-MIRDC’s technologies, facilities, and programs. Among the facilities he mentioned are machining, casting, heat treatment, and surface engineering, to name a few.
Focusing on the theme of the event, ‘Sustainable Collaboration of Public and Private Stakeholders for Agro-Industrial Modernization in the New Normal,’ Engr. Puerto emphasized that the DOST-MIRDC packages its facilities and services as a ‘one-stop-shop that offers micro, small, and medium enterprises the technologies and business solutions they need.’
As an expression of support and partnership to the MIAP, Engr. Puerto encouraged MIAP members to take advantage of the Center’s facilities to further build competitive capabilities in the areas of conventional and precision machining, conventional and precision metal casting, and heat treatment and surface coating. These technologies are for the use of the industry, either through R&D collaborations or through facility-sharing arrangements.
Engr. Puerto further invited the MIAP members to also utilize the DOST-MIRDC’s Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMCen) as well as the Advanced Mechatronics, Robotics, and Industrial Automation Laboratory (AMERIAL) services to enable MSMEs to better face the challenges in the new normal.
DOST Assures Continuous Support to the Metalworking Industry
by Faith P. Macatangay
Taguig City, Metro Manila– The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) expressed its unwavering support to the local manufacturing sector in the virtually held 31st MIAP General Assembly and Election, May 21, 2021.
With this year’s theme “Sustainable Collaboration of Public and Private Stakeholders for Agri-Industrial Modernization in the New Normal,” DOST Secretary Fortunato T. dela Peña looked back at how the DOST was established, how it evolved, and how it carries out research and development for the advancement of various industries including the metals industry.
Sec. dela Peña firmly believes in the capabilities of the country’s manufacturing sector and the metals industry’s leading role in propelling the country towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0. In his concluding message, he congratulated the Metalworking Industries Association of the Philippines, Inc. (MIAP) and shared that he is positively looking forward to future partnerships.
MIAP is a trade association initiated by the Philippine government through the DOST-Metals Industry Research and Development Center (DOST-MIRDC) to answer the need for a body that can represent the metalworking industry sector.